Legacy in the Landscape
how urbanization shapes disaster risk
$124.27
- Paperback
212 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2025
Summary
Legacy in the Landscape: Urban Disasters and Enduring Risk
With its focus on the city rather than the disaster event, this book situates natural disasters in the context of urban growth and change. It offers an original, interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the technical and socioeconomic dimensions of disaster risk and highlighting the commonalities of hazards such as river flooding, coastal flooding, and earthquakes.
The book begins by proposing a novel Urban Risk D…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009633543 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009633546 |
| Author: | Stephanie E. Chang |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 212 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 169mm x 243mm |
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About The Author
Stephanie E. Chang
Stephanie E. Chang is a Professor at the University of British Columbia with a joint appointment in the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES). Her recognitions include: a Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) in 2001; a Distinguished Lectureship from the EERI in 2011; and a Distinguished Research Award from the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Society (IDRiM) in 2018. She co-edited Modeling Spatial Economic Impacts of Disasters (Springer, 2004) and held a Canada Research Chair in Disaster Management and Urban Sustainability from 2004 to 2013.
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